The Third Leg

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it’s no different than the crowd clearing out of Tiger Stadium if we’re playing Western Kentucky

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Ugh, yeah, it is—they were actually there during the game. USC has nobody there for any of it.

Reminds me of the time the Air Force pilot went way too close over Kinnick for Ohio State game in 2010. Was deafening. Guys lost their wings.

https://www.military.com/video/forces/air-force/air-force-football-flyby-cost-pilot-wings/864403901001

IOWA CITY, Iowa -- The Air Force says six pilots who participated in a spectacular flyover before an Iowa football game have been disciplined for flying too low and too fast. The lead pilot is giving up his right to fly military aircraft. The Air Force says the four Talon T-38 Trainer jets flew just 16 feet above the stadium's press box when they wowed 70,000 fans inside Kinnick Stadium before More.. Iowa hosted Ohio State on Nov. 20. The jets also approached speeds of 400 knots during both the flyover and practice runs the day before. The limit is 300 knots. Col. Russell Mack is commander of the 71st Flying Training Wing. He says while he understands fans attending the game enjoyed the flyover, the rules are meant to insure safety.

Pic from press box. shite was so loud.

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I agree that raking care of the dog is a duty but it shouldn't bring immunity. That dog should be trained well enough to follow commands

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Maybe the retard cop with an IQ of 87 should have put his POS half retarded dog on a tethered leash while he cleaned its cage.

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What? So you grew up with a trashy guy named Cody?

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https://www.tampabay.com/archive/2005/05/07/baby-names-in-a-name-the-size-of-parents-wallets/

LOW-INCOME BOYS

1. Cody

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250 days of backpay

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They only need 2.5 days of wages to get the Royal Thai treatment for a few weeks

What a rookie. Real executives get their side pieces for a buck forty in the trailer park

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That squirt would probably beat your arse. D1 wrestlers are nothing to frick with... Especially national champions...

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Isn’t any “probably” about it. I grew up around these deranged fricks that wrassle. I have a friend who was large class state champ in Iowa, quit in college, 145lb weight class. At age 30 I watched him take down a starting NFL guard at a bachelor party on a bet and tapped him out—in about 90 seconds.

First rule of growing up in wrasslin country: do not fight with wrasslers. Ever. Just ask the OU football moron.

https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=879524622848347&vanity=LegLockAssassins&http_ref=eyJ0cyI6MTc4Nzc0ODg4NjAwMCwiciI6Imh0dHBzOlwvXC93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbVwvIn0%3D

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Intimate broken object

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If you send me an email longer than 3 sentences, I ain’t reading that shite—don’t care which Generative solution wrote it or when you sent it.

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1. It's summer, typical US summer fuel price rise is anywhere from 10% to 25%, so it is disingenuous to claim that all of the fuel price increase is due to the war.

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They rarely go up that much in the summer, more like 10% to 15%. And they increased immediately, not over summer. Within 8 weeks, prices had risen from $3 to 4.48. By April 2, they officially crossed $4 after hovering just under $4 for a few weeks. Thats 33% by april. April =\= summer.

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2. The market prices for crude disagree with the contention that the supply has been constricted by 10-15%.

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It is theorized that the sharp pricing increase in spring caused demand destruction on some level, which helped stabilize prices.Strategic reserves have been used as a stop gap to cover a big chunk of that supply side shortfall. Here is the math for you with a source.
https://www.iea.org/reports/oil-market-report-may-2026
At the peak of the Hormuz disruptions, direct supply losses from Persian Gulf producers (Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Kuwait, UAE, and Iran) exceeded 14 million b/d of shut-in production. The IEA noted that second-quarter global oil supply dropped by 12.8 to 13.6 million b/d compared to pre-conflict baselines, representing a direct 13% to 15% contraction in global oil availability.

In response to the supply shock, the 32 member countries of the International Energy Agency (IEA) unanimously agreed to the largest coordinated stock release in history: 400 million barrels of emergency oil made available to global markets.

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Russian crude exports are running well behind 2022 and are presently falling like a rock, They are just below 2023-24 numbers, and have been all year. Worse still for them, Ukraine has seriously impaired their ability to export higher margin refined product, so their net margins are down significantly.

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Rather than benefiting from high export volumes, Russia gained through narrowed price discounts and higher per-barrel realizations. Prior to the Iran conflict, Western sanctions and price caps forced Russian exporters to sell Urals crude at a steep discount—often $20 to $30 below Brent benchmark rates. When Persian Gulf supplies were severed, desperate global buyers pushed the Urals discount down to under $10, earning Russia roughly $1.6 billion per month for every $10 decrease in discount depth. The Russian Finance Ministry projected over 1 trillion rubles ($13.6 billion) in pure windfall revenue directly attributed to the Hormuz price shock.

To stabilize global fuel supplies during the spring peak, the U.S. Treasury and Western partners issued targeted temporary waivers on stranded Russian seaborne oil cargoes. This allowed Russia to clear inventories faster and capture peak market prices ($90–$110+/barrel).

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The $200B number accounts for all the costs of running the carrier battle groups, pay for sailors and troops, food, water, munitions expended, etc. The catch is that NONE of that goes away except the munitions expenditures if we do nothing. Sailors and soldiers still get paid and fed, carrier battle groups still put to sea etc, etc. Real incremental cost is closer to that of Somali learing centers than it is to $200B. Go and calculate it for yourself.

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Some truth to this, from an accounting perspective. But I’m betting the number the Somalis stole is closer to zero than $35-45bn, and that’s what we’ve blown on munitions and other operational expenses so far. Oh, and since we are accounting for costs, Iran turned around and caused $50Bn or so in retaliatory damage to our GCC trade partners who are heavily invested in the perpetuation of the American economy. Then took huge chunks of their supply out of the system, as evidenced above

Then you have to factor in the opportunity cost of operating such a large scale effort in such a far flung theater.

Shifting carrier groups, destroyers, and 5th-generation air assets (like F-22s and F-35s) away from the Western Pacific reduces deterrent coverage against Chinese operational movements in the South China Sea and the Taiwan Strait.

Diverting land-based air squadrons (e.g., F-15Es relocated from RAF Lakenheath) and European-stationed air defense batteries weakens theater defense capability against Russian airspace or missile threats along NATO’s eastern edge.